Nebuchadnezzar II B15 (Q005556)
Royal Inscription, Neo-Babylonian, Borsippa · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE
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| Designation | Nebuchadnezzar II B15 |
|---|---|
| ID | Q005556 |
| Collection | Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin, Germany; British Museum, London, UK; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK |
| Language | Akkadian |
| Period | Neo-Babylonian · c. 626 BCE–539 BCE |
| Genre | Royal Inscription |
| Find spot | Borsippa |
| Coordinates | 32.3907, 44.3448 |
English translation
By ORACC project ribo/babylon7 · Via Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC)
| Line | English |
|---|---|
| Obverse [0:2] 11–22 | Nebuchadnezzar (II), king of Babylon, son of Nabopolassar, king of Babylon, am I: |
| Obverse [2:5] 33–55 | (As for) Ezida, which is inside Borsippa, I indeed built (it) for the god Nabû, my lord. I indeed decorated its structure with silver, god, (and) precious stones. I indeed made the processional way of the temple shine with ritually pure baked bricks. |
| Obverse [5:8] 66–88 | O Nabû, exalted vizier, legitimate heir, beloved of the god Marduk, by your exalted command, may I cut down my enemies, may my throne endure, (and) may I attain a very old age. |
Transliteration (ATF)
From Open Richly Annotated Cuneiform Corpus (ORACC) · CC BY-SA 3.0 (ORACC default); per-file JSON license fields say: This data is released under the CC0 license (133618)
| Line | ATF | Machine English (draft) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | {d}na-bi-um-ku-du-ur₂-ri-u₂-ṣu-ur LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} | |
| 2 | DUMU {d}na-bi-um-IBILA-u₂-ṣu-ur LUGAL KA₂.DINGIR.RA{ki} a-na-ku | |
| 3 | e₂-zi-da ša₂ qe₂-reb bar-si-pa{ki} a-na {d}AG EN-ia₂ lu e-pu-uš | |
| 4 | i-na KU₃.BABBAR KU₃.GI ni-siq-ti NA₄.NA₄ lu-za-in ši-ik-in-šu | |
| 5 | ta-al-la-ak-ti E₂ i-na a-gur-ri KU₃-tim lu u₂-nam-mi-ir | |
| 6 | {d}AG suk-kal-lam ṣi-i-ri IBILA ki-nim na-ra-am {d}AMAR.UTU | |
| 7 | i-na qi₂-bi-ti-ka ṣi-ir-ti lu-ša-am-qi₂-it na-ki-ri | |
| 8 | li-ku-un {giš}GU.ZA-u₂-a lu-uš-ba-a lit-tu-tu |
Sources & licences
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